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I bow to the one endowed with eye-anointing, with great beauty. 55. Discipline and method, method and discipline, immeasurable, Born of victory. This unequalled one, Of victory and non-victory; Distinguishing, sharing, Not sharing, not distinguishing, Without thought; Uneven, even, Not even, not uneven, I bow down. 56. Supreme delight, Not delight, not supreme, Of excellent qualities; Grasping, going, Not going, not grasping, Without ego; Accumulating, decaying, Not decaying, not accumulating, Without debt; Done, not done, Not done, not done, Unmoving. 57. Straight on the path of going, Leading to the land of liberation; The Teacher, with the excellent chariot-elephant, With the wheel of hide; With the support of sandals of shame, With the heard Dhamma; Endowed with the restraint of mindfulness, With the banner of miracles. 58. With unharming eyes, With well-restrained spokes and felloes; With a generous heart, With full-bodied truth; Who is adorned with skillfulness, With a humble elbow; With unharsh seeking, Delighting in guarded virtue. 59. With the destroyer of latent defilements, With wisdom going before, With timeliness; With the driver of wisdom, Not with a bold staff of purpose; With the spur of mindfulness, With the reins of wisdom, With the tamed horse of mind; In the assembly of discipline, I bow to that unequalled caravan leader. 60. Who made the net of twin miracles, With the stinginess of others' domain; Who made the darkness of wrong views, The support for the grasping of sects; Who, among many, Performed the miracle of the jewel walk; I bow to him, Even near the mango tree, The banner of victory. 61. Whose excellent lotus feet, Adorned with the mark of the wheel, Were radiant with the light of his nails; Whose auspicious glory, With a net of rays from his ten fingers, Shone brightly; Gods and devas, Always adorned their noble heads with them; To him, the very charming one, The Tirthikas bowed. 62. Even one Buddha, Of immeasurable qualities, Would praise him throughout his life; How then could another speak? A kalpa would quickly be exhausted; But he whose praise is endless, Would not come to an end; I bow to that Omniscient One, The sole refuge of all beings. 63. Foot-light, Born of two eyes, Dhamma-body, Elephant of wisdom; Foremost elephant of speech, Head of refuge, Enclosure of the path, Of auspicious limbs; Adorned with virtue, That pure being, Substance of the seven wisdom-abidings; Foremost among lords, Elephant of fruit, Food of liberation, I bow. 64. With waves agitated by defilements, Causing great fear, The ocean of miserable samsara; The capture of the sky-cloud, With the face of the shore of peace. Our chief lord of the ship; Desiring to cross the ocean of existence, a multitude of people on the one excellent path, Having placed them on it, I salute him with incomparable reverence. 65. Whose body shines with the radiance of a hundred thousand suns, Adorned with a banner of supreme light, bearing the splendor of the True Dhamma; Whose blazing rays emanate from his body even today, I venerate that sage, the foremost of the Sakyas, whose face is like the full moon. 66. Destroying the darkness of beings, giving to those who are to be trained, Making the forest of existence into dust, performing the three difficult tasks for the enjoyment of beings; I bow to him, who is revered, charming, leading men and gods, With reverence, dispelling fear, like a rain-cloud for beings. 67. The Buddha, with a banyan-like figure, soft hands and feet, thighs like a Brahma's voice, Whose private parts are concealed by a sheath, again, the Fortunate One, with well-planted feet; With soft, white, upward-curling hair, and again, the Fortunate One, with a body like Brahma, Blue-eyed, with long heels, skin subtle and unblemished, praised for his supreme radiance. 68. With forty excellent teeth, evenly set, with a full inner jaw, Feet marked with wheels, teeth close-set, with a conch-like ankle; Standing, bending, touching his knees with his soft, terrifying hands, The Victor, with a rounded torso, eyelashes like a young ox, and the forepart of his body like a lion. 69. With seven parts full, and long fingers, again, the Fortunate One, with one hair in each pore, With perfect, white fangs, skin like gold, with blue hair on his head, The Fully Awakened One, with a broad tongue, and a lion's jaw, with webbed hands and feet, The Lord, with a turban-like head; thus, I bow to that Great Sage endowed with these qualities. 70. With rounded, well-arranged, beautiful fingers, and eight high, reddish nails, With concealed ankles, even feet, like a lion, like a bull, with a gait like a swan; Walking clockwise, with a perfectly rounded, knotless, beautiful knee, A body full of auspicious marks, a deep navel, and a flawless right-hand curl. 71. With mighty arms like an elephant's trunk, well-proportioned and gradually tapering, with eight (unclear), Indeed, a body pure, gradually beautiful, without moles and such; Ten hundred crores of hands... He has three marks, a beautiful nose like a golden peak. His teeth and gums are clean and smooth, he is the refuge of the world. 72. With pure and serene faculties, he has rounded tusks, red lips, he is the lord of gods and humans. He has long and beautiful teeth, the sage has a deep, straight, and long, beautiful line on his body. His aura extends a fathom, he is well-nourished and well-formed, with long, wide, and beautiful eyes. He has five serene eyes, with curved and beautiful eyelashes, and a soft, red tongue. 73. His body is gentle, smooth, radiant, soft, and pure, with immeasurable virtues. His soft hair curls to the right, dark like collyrium, soft-bodied. His soft hair curls to the right, fine, smooth, dark, undisturbed, the Conqueror. He has a beautiful form, with smooth hair, who has accumulated a hundred good deeds. 74. His head is perfectly rounded, like a parasol, exceedingly beautiful, with long and pleasing ears. His eyebrows are well-formed, fine, and beautiful, and he has long eyebrows. His body is fragrant, his head and face are broad, his forehead is long and beautiful. His breathing is very subtle, he bows to the Dharma, equal to the Dharma, with a variegated banner of glory. 75. How rare is the appearance of a Buddha, even the mere sound of it in the world! Therefore, desiring the happiness of oneself and others in various ways, may the virtuous ones, wherever they are, reverently worship the Sugata, who is the refuge of gods and humans, the dispeller of obstacles, the sole field of merit, unceasingly. 76. By the power of this praise of the supreme field, and the swift reverence in this existence, freed from the afflictions of disease, fear, and other dangers, may one attain joy, wealth, and merit. May one attain the supreme enjoyments of gods and humans, and by the power of others, in the final existence, one will attain one of the supreme three enlightenments, according to one's aspiration, by this act of bowing. 77. By this merit, may I be skillful, swift-minded, loving, sweet-spoken, friendly, faithful, with good friends, gone for refuge, virtuous, and devoted to giving. May I be conscientious, prudent, with unblemished conduct, resolute, truthful, learned, generous, beneficial to myself and others, with a beautiful voice, and handsome. 78. Long-lived, healthy, born into a pure family, righteous... detached, dispassionate, Always unwavering, grateful, extremely gentle and upright in mind, discerning of good qualities and so on; May I be one whose livelihood is Dhamma, devoted to much wholesome action, with little anger, not greedy, And thus may I make a final aspiration, a partaker of liberation and Nibbāna. 79. (1) Buddhaghosa's great commentary, even making it concise; Abandoning what should be abandoned, giving what should be given, he did it in such a way. 80. (2) The great ancient salutation, somewhat, again and again; The difficult-to-bear transgression of desires, abandoning, giving in other places. 81. (3) Marked by the establishment of the experience of the victory of hearing; By this revered hearing, this new salutation is made. 82. (4) Verses of one syllable, up to twenty-six syllables; By their nature, seventy poems, reckoned as four more. 83. (5) With eight more, by people and so on, this is bowed to; Desires for the meaning as stated, may they always bear them. 84. Who is exceedingly charming, king of kings, Bearing a flood of qualities, god of gods, Who has gone to the end of existence, Brahma of Brahmas, I salute him, who has overcome all aggregates and bonds. 85. The spotless, faultless, god of men and gods, The unshaken, unmoving, protector of the fearful, The unblemished, uncorrupted, lord of the helpless, Who has ended all decay, I bow to him, I bow. 86. The sage, with nails red and smooth and high, and fingers round and pure and beautiful, Like a lion, a bull, a swan, with hidden and even ankles, and a long face; With soft, right-spiraling body hairs, and a body shining with pure, bright luster, With eyes endowed with fivefold clarity, and a fragrant mouth, and a high nose. 87. With the strength of ten million elephants, with lips very red, with well-rounded teeth, With long, fine, dark eyebrows, and a soft, thin, red tongue, With a head beautiful like an umbrella, adorned with excellent hair and a topknot, I bow my head to this supreme chief of sages, endowed with these minor marks. 88. That sage, by being very far from all defilements, and by having destroyed the enemy of defilements, The supreme man, honored in the three existences, whose mind is free from suffering, and who is without defilements; And the sage, knowing the infinite knowable in every hidden place of defilement, Endowed with conduct, with the three knowledges, with good speech, with good going among people, the Sugata. He is the Knower of the Worlds, having fully understood the nature of the world,